14 DAY TRIAL // Because all the (real or fake) marital drama isn’t enough to keep Tori Spelling occupied, she’s now forced to deal with another of her mother’s tell-alls which, from excerpts obtained by Radar Online, seems focused on painting the former “Beverly Hills 90210” star as a manipulative, very money-hungry woman.
Candy Spelling has a new book out, called “Candy at Last,” which, though not her first autobiography, focuses a bit more on her strained relationship with her daughter and, at the same time, offers an explanation for why things deteriorated so quickly in the years preceding producer Aaron Spelling’s 2006 death.
He and daughter Tori had a huge falling out when her marriage to Charlie Shanian imploded after she had cheated on him with current husband Dean McDermott. Ironically, the two, Tori and Dean, are now featured on a docuseries on Lifetime, in which they try to see if they can save their marriage after he cheated on her – and got caught, of course.
Candy recalls how Tori “refused to speak to any of us on the phone,” and didn’t make contact again until after Aaron died, when she just showed up at the service with Dean in tow. Rumor has it that, while Candy is now worth about $600 million (€430.8 million), Tori got a little under $800,000 (€574,919) in the will after Aaron’s death.
He was “angry” and devastated about his daughter’s refusal to speak to him, Candy writes.
“I am by no means saying that I am the perfect mother now or I didn’t make mistakes when my children were growing up. Having said that, I also believe that there comes a time when you have to stop blaming your parents. Take responsibility for your own actions and attitudes,” reads another excerpt of the book.
In a more veiled diss, Candy says Tori has her father’s gift of “storytelling,” which is most likely a reference to how she has always played the victim in the press. “[Whenever] I denied Tori an extravagant purchase, it resulted in radio silence,” she writes elsewhere, explaining how her daughter would always dictate the terms of their relationship.
As it happens, this is not the first tell-all to claim that Tori places money over everything else. Former “90210” co-star Jason Priestley writes in his new memoir of the disappointment he felt when he saw Tori’s televised garage sale and his wedding invitation, to her and Dean, going up for auction for a few bucks.